Manoeuvre

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Manoeuvre is an interactive table, a design-research artefact to explore and compare the implementation of static and moving sensor(s). The interactive table top holds a flexible wooden strip in which a body, a wave, can move. Capacitive sensors that react upon touching the body are integrated twofold. Two sensors are placed on the moving body, the part that moves under the wooden strip and creates the wave. These sensors move along with the body. A static grid of sensors is placed in the table. The reciprocity of touch between person and artefact is explored. The person touches the wave and tries to lure it along. The body moves gently through the table. It can move both in the horizontal and vertical plane.